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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [450 KB]
Gene therapy for arthritis deemed safe.
Old friends come of age together at Pitt med.
Avoiding cases like Terri Schiavo's.

CLOSER [111 KB]
Über-magnet.

INVESTIGATIONS [180 KB]
Made-to-order cancer vaccines.
Pittsburgh researchers are watching genes in action.
How can doctors stop people from considering clinical trials only as a last resort?

ATTENDING [533 KB]
A polio scrapbook.

MATCH LIST [85 KB]
The class of '05 ventures out.

ALUMNI NEWS [1340 KB]
A booster like Bebe Miller doesn’t come along every day.
What happened after Mary Carrasco started
questioning abusive parents.

LAST CALL [285 KB]
Ouch.

COVER STORY

In this issue we explore the perfect storm that is the teenage brain. (Photo © C.E. Mitchell.)

FEATURES

Raging Hormones, But What Else [549 KB]
Those darned kids--reckless, passionate, inconsolably bored. What’s going on in their minds? As it turns out, adolescence is a time of opportunity as well as vulnerability in brain development.
COVER STORY BY CHUCK STARESINIC

Life Jackets on Ice [313 KB]
Some of the basics about how to care for premature babies came from Richard Lawrence Day, Pitt’s former chair of pediatrics.
BY EDWIN KIESTER JR.

Tiny Bubbles [764 KB]
These itsy-bitsy bubbles can identify cardiovascular injury before symptoms even develop.
IMAGE ESSAY BY FLORDELIZA VILLANUEVA
AND MEGHAN HOLOHAN